Mary Morgan is a Psychoanalyst and Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society, Senior Fellow of Tavistock Relationships and Honorary Member of the Polish Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
She worked for more than 30 years at Tavistock Relationships, London, where she was the Reader in Couple Psychoanalysis and Head of the MA and Professional Doctorate in Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy.
She has published more than 40 articles in field of couple psychoanalysis and developed concepts such as ‘a couple state of mind’, ‘the creative couple’, ‘unconscious beliefs about being a couple’ and ‘a projective gridlock’. She edited with Andrew Balfour and Christopher Vincent ‘How Couple Relationships Shape our World, published in 2012. In 2019, her book: ‘A Couple State of Mind: Psychoanalysis of Couples – the Tavistock Relationships Model’ was published by Routledge. It describes both the theoretical and clinical approach of Tavistock Relationships developed over the last 70 years and her own conceptual thinking and technique. It is now available in English, Polish, Italian, Russian and Chinese.
She has taken a leading role in disseminating the Tavistock Relationships Model internationally through writing, supervision, participating in conferences and teaching in many parts of the world. She has been part of setting up and/or teaching on courses and trainings in Sweden, Finland San Francisco, New York, and Poland. She is on the advisory boards of several scientific journals including the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Couple and Family Psychoanalysis and Interazioni.
She is consultant to the IPA Committee on Couple and Family Psychoanalysis (COFAP). She currently works in private practice in London, UK.
